No. Columbus discovered the West Indies while trying to reach the East Indies, which the Europeans already knew existed.
The enterprise of the indies was Columbus's plan to sail West and end Up East
Columbus believed he had reached the Indies when he arrived in North America, so he called the people he found there "Indians". Though this term has been inaccurate since it was first used, the term "Native American" did not come into use until centuries later.
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The west indies where named by christopher columbus however we today call it the carribean a series of islands in carribean sea
after Christopher Columbus found the West Indies.
No. Columbus discovered the West Indies while trying to reach the East Indies, which the Europeans already knew existed.
Columbus called these islands the Indiesbecause he thought he had finally reached Asia (and the East Indies). Spain, when Columbus' mistake was discovered, (pardon the pun) renamed them the West Indies, to distinguish them from the Spice Islands in the Pacific Ocean, (the East Indies) which we now call Indonesia.
The enterprise of the indies was Columbus's plan to sail West and end Up East
Christopher Columbus. He thought he had reached India and named the island "Indies" and called its inhabitants, "Indians". Later Amerigo Vespucci proved that Colombus had actually found the New Lands, and not India. The island was then renamed "West Indies".
Columbus believed he had reached the Indies when he arrived in North America, so he called the people he found there "Indians". Though this term has been inaccurate since it was first used, the term "Native American" did not come into use until centuries later.
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it was so named because to him we looked like the east indies he was just idle
the Indies
to find the Indies